Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Buy This Alternative Book

Here at the Alternative Energy Blog, while not underestimating the scale of the challenges facing the world, we like to talk about solutions. Another website that has consistently done this is World Changing, which started as an award winning group blog, became a non-profit and has now also become a 600 page book.

This firecracker of a book is about the future of the world, full of big ideas on how humanity, technology and our environment can interact in a positive way. If you are tired of pessimistic doom and gloom tomes on the state of the world and the business as usual messages of many of our political & business leaders, this is the book for you. It is a optimistic read, overflowing with ideas for change.

What are you waiting for?

Go buy World Changing and instead of the Barefoot Contessa, let's see barefoot solar engineers on the top sellers list.

its great to get this kind of info out there. very important. but still, to defend the gloom and doomers, many, likely even most, of the most important steps are already public knowledge, but havent caught on because politicians are mostly spineless and because the established fossil fuels companies control the energy market.

I really thing you would enjoy this new video I just saw about the use of solar cooking in refugee camps in Kenya. The deforestation in that area is astounding, and many people barter what little they have for food for charcoal to cook whatever remaining food they might have. Solar Cookers International (are you familiar with their work?) has been working with the refugees to teach them solar cooking, and you cannot believe the impact that it has made. There is a really short clip of it on YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQbj0lmkZ7M and the video is available here: